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A bunker containing 100-year-old tefillin hidden from the Nazis in Holocaust has been discovered in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, the Shem Olam Institute reported • Full Story

Yud Shevat 5711. An elderly Chassid gets up on a table and announces: “The Sichos are Good, But We Want a Maamar” Who was this Chassid who went by the name of Rabbi Avrohom Sender Nemtzov? A profile of one the oldest youngsters of Dor Hashvi’i • By Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

After deliberating on whether or not to ban air travel into Israel as fears of a new coronavirus variant grow, the Israeli government has indeed decided to shut down Ben-Gurion airport with very few exceptions from midnight Monday and not reopen it for at least the next week. This poses a big dilemma for those who need to return from New York, as they now scramble to find a flight that will arrive back home before said deadline. • Full Article

Two Israeli internet gurus have created a new app designed to remind people to put on Tefillin daily. The two, who are totally secular, try to sell their app to the general Israeli public in language which it can relate to. • Full Article